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1	* CreatorBacklash: Dean Torrence feels this way about the duo's early DooWop recordings, due to their primitive sound and (what he feels to be) corny lyrics. He also never cared about "Honolulu Lulu", especially its lyrics, although he eventually came to appreciate the melody.
2	* HeAlsoDid: Positive and negative examples for Dean Torrence. The positive example is that he founded his own design company, Kittyhawk Graphics, and designed covers for dozens of albums, even winning a Grammy at one point. The negative is that he had a minor connection to [[https://jananddean-janberry.com/mysterious-financier-dean-torrence-and-the-kidnapping-of-frank-sinatra-jr/#more-826 the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr.]], masterminded by his down-on-his-luck friend Barry Keenan. Basically, Keenan approached Torrence and Dean gave him some seed money and shared a safe deposit box with him, never thinking that Keenan would actually go through with his outlandish plot. Torrence became a star witness in Keenan's trial.
3	* ThePeteBest: Jan and Dean first began as Jan and Arnie. After two hits and a flop, Arnie Ginsburg tired of show business and left the duo to study architecture. Fortunately, Dean Torrence just so happened to leave the U.S. Army Reserve around that time. [[labelnote:Fun Fact]]The promotional 45 of Jan and Dean's first record, "Baby Talk", erroneously credits the duo as "Jan and Arnie"[[/labelnote]]
4	* ThrowItIn: "She's My Summer Girl" begins with Jan Berry reciting "eleven bees, four wasps, a turtle... eleven bees and a bumblebee" (the take that was used for release was [[StealthPun 11B]]). That intro was cut out on its initial release as the B-side of the "Surf City" single, but it was left in when it was included on the ''Ride the Wild Surf'' album.
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6	%%** ''Carnival of Sound''.
7	** In the fall of 1963, they shot a pilot for a television series called ''Surf Scene'', which didn't sell due to bad publicity from the Frank Sinatra Jr. kidnapping. Another unsold pilot, ''On the Run'', was filmed in 1966.
8	** In 1965 they began work on a musical/comedy feature film they were to star in for Creator/{{Paramount}} called ''Easy Come, Easy Go''. During location shooting Jan Berry and the film's director Barry Shear were severely injured in a train crash, leading to the project being abandoned.
9	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jan and Dean were set to appear in ''Ride the Wild Surf'', a beach movie for which they contributed the title tune, but after the Frank Sinatra Jr. incident, they were replaced by Tab Hunter and Peter Brown. Their theme still appeared in the film, and the cover of the album on which the song appeared was designed to make it look like it was a soundtrack album.
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